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If anyone in Brooklyn near the intersection of Washington Ave and Atlantic Ave just saw a Hasidic man in a grey van try to hit a woman and her baby in a stroller as she crossed a crosswalk, honking and touching the stroller with the car’s bumper, please DM me. That woman was me.

Thank you everyone for your kind words of support today. We are fine. But this is not the first time a man from the Hasidic community in NYC has attempted to harm me or other women I know. Any woman riding a bike through South Williamsburg can attest. I hope this guy is caught.

Amber Tamblyn claims a “Hasidic man” almost ran her over in Brooklyn on Sunday while she was pushing her baby in a stroller.People are blasting her on Twitter after she chastised men within the Jewish faith and accused them of targeting women.

So the mythology you are promoting now is that men from a Hasidic community harm women. Wow, Jew-haters run amok on Twitter.

I'm just curious how many people are now going to assume that every Hasidic man walking or driving down the street is the one who attempted to harm you? You don't feel remotely concerned about profiling? The replies to your tweet are quite telling.

I live in the area and I’m having a hard time being upset over this. Hasidic Williamsburg is full of aggressive drivers and giant busses that don’t obey normal laws of traffic. I’m not even sure if Hasidic women are allowed to drive.

i lived in williamsburg for 10 years and that specific sect of hasidism is a fucking shitty terrible cult that does and hides incredibly fucked up shit like crimes against children and abuse of women they behave as though they are above the law and general rules of society do not apply. is Every Single Person who is a part of that group a bad person? of course not! but the group as a whole is bad, just like any shitty cult.

Around McDonald ave brooklyn. Aggressive AF drivers. A lot of the men really dgaf about other pedestrians. I've been elbowed, shoved, walked into and almost run over so many times growing up in that area it's crazy.

MTE. While I think it's problematic on a larger scale (people reading into this as an attack on the entire Hasidic community) I've definitely experienced the aggressiveness of the people in this area walking through that neighbourhood. I don't doubt that she's repeatedly experienced similar situations.

But, is her (or your) beef the driving, or that they are Hasidic? Why mention his religion, even if they are overwhelmingly Hasidic people doing it? They're probably just shitty drivers. You happen to be in a Hasidic area. It sorta works like that.

Honestly, it's kind of complicated. There's a long history of tensions between the Hasidic community and the non-Hasidic people in the neighborhoods around them. There was a big thing a while back about bike lanes, that the Hasidic community didn't like that they encouraged "scantily clad" women to ride bikes through the neighborhood, etc. And harassment (sexual and otherwise) has been an issue, of cyclists and pedestrians, although obviously that's an issue everywhere, not just in the Hasidic community. There have been other things, like them trying to segregate buses that they run using public funding (trying to make women sit in the back of the bus) that don't exactly help community relations.

good comment. i hate the "what if you said _______" arguments. i think people are doing it here to point out that the left lets a lot of antisemitism slide, but imo it's a shitty way to make that point

In that particular neighborhood they have their own religious police force and yes they have attacked both women and other visible minorities who happened not to be hasidic. There's a few videos in this post showing that bikes have been run off the road purposely multiple times.

There's so much abuse that goes on in the Hasidic community though and so many people get shamed and disowned and attacked for "leaving" and living a secular or less religious life after being forced into an arranged marriage with someone they met for an hour and then having a bunch of kids and being expected to just be a submissive and quiet homemaker.

The thing is, they keep all their crimes very hush hush. I'm Muslim too so I get the stereotype sucks, but this community is very sketchy. I live in Brooklyn and right adjacent to another massive Hasidic community, and the shit they get away with is unreal. I work at a hospital and we hear stories of how they use their own ambulances and police forces to cover up whenever they hit and run people. Also, whenever they come to our hospital as patients, they are all over the patient making sure everything is going by correctly and don't give two fucks about HIPAA.

Attempting (or actual) harm to women is not exclusive to any group of men no matter how you want to slice the pie, so what the hell is the point of her Tweets? She needs to take an extended social media break and sort her life out.

Well, Hasidic men aren't exactly champions of women's rights or tolerance. Hasidic Judaism is extremism, plain and simple. I know ya'll are going to roast me, I don't care. I've seen enough documentaries to understand why people are desperate to escape its chains.

If people in ONTD are going to take a stand against wingnut bible thumpers, for their anti-LGBTQ stance, attack on women's reproductive rights etc., we need to do the same against other extreme sects of religions. Just because they're a minority doesn't mean they're exempt from critique.

For every article you find about men in the Hasidic community attacking women on the street I can find two about some "red-blooded American male" who murdered his wife/girlfriend/random woman who told him no. The problem is toxic masculinity in general.